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Software Measurement

Current Trends in Research and Practice

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Reiner Dumke
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  2. Alain Abran
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Part of the book series: Information Engineering und IV-Controlling (IEIVC)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Software Measurement History and Future Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Thirty Years of Software Measurement

      • Horst Zuse
      Pages 3-37

    3. Function Point Evolution

      • Charles R. Symons
      Pages 39-39

  3. Software Measurement Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Metrics Validation Proposals: A Structured Analysis

      • Jean-Philippe Jacquet, Alain Abran
      Pages 43-59

    3. On the use of a Segmentally Additive Proximity Structure to Measure Object Class Life Cycle Complexity

      • Geert Poels
      Pages 61-79

    4. Attribute-Based Model of Software Size

      • Lem. O. Ejiogu
      Pages 81-92

    5. Multidimensional Software Performance Measurement Models: A Tetrahedron-based Design

      • Luigi Buglione, Alain Abran
      Pages 93-107

    6. A Pastry Cook’s View on Software Measurement

      • Frank Niessink, Hans van Vliet
      Pages 109-125

    7. Metric for Effective Test Coverage

      • Vedha Kichenamourty
      Pages 127-140

  4. Software Measurement Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Measuring Legacy Database Structures

      • Harry M. Sneed, Oliver Foshag
      Pages 143-158

    3. REST — A tool to Measure the Ripple Effect of C and C++ Programs

      • Sue Black
      Pages 159-172

    4. Y2K from a Metrics Point of View

      • Reiner R. Dumke, Achim S. Winkler
      Pages 173-193

    5. Software Metrics for Multimedia Languages

      • Stephen H. Edwards, Sallie M. Henry, Roger P. Bodnar Jr.
      Pages 195-208

    6. Improving Reliability of Large Software Systems

      • Christof Ebert, Thomas Liedtke, Ekkehard Baisch
      Pages 209-228

    7. Prototype of a Software Metrics Database for industrial use

      • Andreas Schmietendorf
      Pages 229-243

  5. Function Point Foundations and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. Comparison between FPA and FFP: a field experience

      • Jean-Marc Desharnais, Pam Morris
      Pages 247-264
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About this book

Software developers are faced with the challenge of making software systems and products of ever greater quality and safety, while at the same time being faced with the growing pressure of costs reduction in order to gain and maintain competitive advantages. As in any scientific and engineering discipline, reliable measurement is essential for talking on such a challenge. "Software measurement is an excellent abstraction mechanism for learning what works and what doesn't" (Victor Basili). Measurement of both software process and products provides a large amount of basic information for the evaluation of the software development processes or the software products themselves. Examples of recent successes in software measurement span multiple areas, such as evaluation of new development methods and paradigms, quality and management improvement programs, tool-supporting initiatives and company­ wide measurement programs. The German Computer Science Interest (GI) Group of Software Metrics and the Canadian Interest Group in Software Metrics (CIM) have attended to these concerns in the recent years. Research initiatives were directed initially to the definition of software metrics and then to validation of the software metrics themselves. This was followed by more and more investigation into practical applications of software metrics and by critical analysis of the benefits and weaknesses of software measurement programs. Key findings in this area of software engineering have been published in some important books, such as Dumke and Zuse's Theory and Practice of Software Measurement, Ebert and Dumke's Software Metrics in Practice and Lehner, Dumke and Abran's Software Metrics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Software Measurement

  • Book Subtitle: Current Trends in Research and Practice

  • Editors: Reiner Dumke, Alain Abran

  • Series Title: Information Engineering und IV-Controlling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08949-0

  • Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8244-6876-8Published: 16 January 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-663-08949-0Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 272

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: IT in Business

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